Semua Bab Dear best friend's brother, kiss me while you can: Bab 81 - Bab 90

☆☆SUMMER'S POV☆☆Hayden stepped away from me. He moved in circles. Each step made my heart beat faster. His voice came from behind, startling me.“Will you be my girlfriend, nugget?”I froze. That was not where I thought this was going. Not here. Not now. I never could have thought Hayden would ask me out. I’d wanted this since forever. Since the first day I saw him last summer, but now I just.. I didn’t know what to say.“I—” My throat tightened.He stepped closer until I felt his chest against my back, his mouth brushing my ear.“Hayden, I don’t know what to say.”“Say yes,” he murmured.“What happens if I say no?”His hands slid down my arms and stopped at my hips. He traced the cuffs with a finger.“You won’t say no.”“How are you so fucking sure?”I should have stalled. I should have laughed it off. But my head was swimming. My body shuddered as his hands glided up and down my arms again. I wanted to turn to him. But I couldn’t. I just felt stupid. Shitty. Jake was suffering and

☆☆SUMMER’S POV☆☆I was stretched across the bed, the sheets barely covering me. Naked, just like I promised. I could barely hear the bass from the club. And my heartbeat was louder than the voices in my head, each beat dragging the minutes out.I’d lost count of how long Hayden had been gone with JT. Every creak and muffled voice from my head made my heart hitch. What if something went wrong? What if something terrible had happened to his mother?What if’s! Just shut up, Summer. God. I bet fifty bucks that my mind was wired to think of the negatives. I hated not knowing things. Almost as much as I hated knowing things I couldn’t unhear.The door finally opened. I exhaled like I’d been holding my breath since he left. Hayden stepped inside. The click of the door locking made me reposition myself. His gaze cut through the red blue lights. He saw me. And stopped. I laid naked. Breasts perky and nipples pointing at his direction. Legs crossed over the other. Lips stretched in a seductive

♤♤JAKE'S POV♤♤ I shouldn’t have come here. I shouldn’t have slipped that stupid envelope into Celeste’s hand. But it felt like the only way to stop hearing Summer’s voice in my head. The only way to stop seeing her blood on my hands, even though it wasn’t hers. That dreadful morning, Mom came in like she always did—private jet, black SUVs, gloves. She didn’t even flinch when she saw the mess. She saw me crouched on the floor and touched my face, not the body sprawled on the couch. “I killed her, mom. I killed Summer.” “Jake. Look at me,” she said. “You didn’t kill Summer. You didn’t kill anyone you loved. You made a mistake, but we will handle this.” “She was her. Don’t you get it? She was Summer in my head. I killed Summer.” “No. You didn’t. And no one will know what you did today. You’re my son. You’ll be fine. This dead girl doesn't exist. You never knew her.” Kat. Poor Kat. She had to die because of my fucked up mind. I didn’t even know her full name or anything about her.

♡♡HAYDEN'S POV♡♡ I headed for the door. Mom’s voice sliced through the silence. “Hayden. Hayden. Get back here.” I didn’t answer. She could scream my name until her throat bled and I still wouldn’t turn. I was going to tell Summer the truth. She needed to know the things her so-called best friend enjoyed doing aside from making promises and placing stupid bets. The next thing I knew, Jake’s hand clamped around my wrist, stopping me in my tracks. I spun, facing him. He let me go. His eyes welled up with unshed tears, and he raked a hand through his hair. “You show up here to talk about Summer, and now you want to exhume ghosts? Fine. Here.” “Jacob!” Mom snapped. “Stop it this instant.” Tears ran down his face. He slammed a palm against his chest, voice splintering. “I killed a woman. I was totally messed up. Didn’t know what I was doing. It was a mistake.” “…” “What? You’re not going to say anything? Isn’t this what you wanted? The truth? Aren’t you happy now that I’ve caved?

☆☆SUMMER’S POV☆☆Their laughter ripped me open. My heart shattered instantly as tears slipped from my eyes. Unconsciously, I yanked the hem of the dress down, as if to cover the little dignity I had left. But it was only doing so little. Every tug made me feel even more vulnerable.It was at that moment, I dared to notice some boys ogling at me, winking and blowing kisses. Some girls stared, eyes all judgemental as if I had come to steal the spotlight.I stepped forward then, ready to confront Megan and her friends. But the instant Celeste turned, our eyes locked. And suddenly, everything I had planned to say wiped clean from my head. Then she smiled, radiant—like she’d known I was there the whole time. “There you are,” she chimed, looping her arm through mine. “I was just defending your honor.”Kendra and Sandra rolled their eyes.“See you later, Celeste,” Megan said.Celeste nodded. Megan gave me a once-over before turning robotically, strutting off with Kendra and Sandra while Lil